Virginia, Georgia, and South Carolina only ... Southern planters absconded from their debts, abandoned plantations, and carried their slaves to the independent Republic of Texas where they were ...

In the 1700s, when the younger sons of Tidewater Virginia’s plantation owners began crowding ... coal seams have been exhausted. There are abandoned bathhouses, where miners once washed off ...

Upon moving to the United States and purchasing a large plantation in South Carolina ... professor of history at the University of Virginia, supports the idea that Jefferson was likely working ...

In 1607, the Virginia Company founded the first ... Jamestown was all but abandoned. The Middle Plantation, now known as Williamsburg, replaced it as the colonial capital the following year.

The truth, by contrast, paints a far darker portrait of the man who abandoned his oath to the United States to preserve human bondage. Born in Virginia in 1807 ... Arlington’s transformation from a ...

There is another book, the The Autobiography of Emily Donaldson Walton, and she is someone who remembers the plantation. I’ve always had ... looks all heartbroken and bereft because she’s been ...

What started as a mission to save a dilapidated church has blossomed into one of the most charming wedding venues in the area ...

A Virginia father said on Wednesday that Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) officials launched an investigation into his son and two others for questioning why a biological female student was in ...

Weeks later, the boy was abandoned an ocean away in Hopewell ... “He was known as the Virginia giant—the Virginia Hercules—because he was huge.” A granite memorial marks the spot in ...

THE STORY OF THE ENSLAVED IN CHARLESTON, FROM THE SHORES OF AFRICA TO THE AUCTION BLOCK OF THE SLAVE MART, TO THE PLANTATIONS THAT SURROUND THE BUSTLING DOWNTOWN. BUT MANY OF THE PLANTATIONS HAVE ...